ideas for paper

where do i begin? i have been staring at the monitor for 30 mins typing nothing.

i don't know how to start this paper! writing academic papers (thesis worth ones) is the same as making a story. you need to research what has already been done to make sure you don't duplicate works. this is the hardest part and this is where i am now. ok. let's do the outline. it works sometimes

introduction

importance of confidence intervals

restrictions

skewed

attempts to solve (problem with the attempts)

bootstrap confidence intervals

establish precision (explain choice of percentile t)

large difference between bci's and standard ci's

what causes the difference?

departures from symmetry or normality can be summarized by moments such as skewness,mean, kurtosis, variance.

the paper investigates the different summary measures that can characterize the deviation of the standard ci from the accurate interval (represented by bci's)

HOPEFULLY output a correction mechanism to correct the ci's using measures computed from the sample.

ok.aja!